Guild Wars 2

Several weeks in a row now my guild has been screwed out of merits due to guild bounty npcs disappearing before the bounty hunt is over. We know that the person that activates the bounty has to stay on the map and that person does. We’ll get a bounty nearly dead, just a few hits to go, and it will say event failed and the npc will disappear – even if we’ve got 5-10 minutes left on the bounty hunt. Please fix this. We want to unlock the rest of the guild missions and this is completely screwing us over.

Edit: As an additional detail, this does not just happen when the bounty npc is almost dead. An hour ago we had to kill Devious Teesa and we had engaged the npc not a minute and a half before it disappeared and said the event failed, with the player that originally engaged it standing right beside it. We also do not kite the npc away from it’s path, if that somehow causes it to fail.

BUMP because I want my guild backpack!

When I’ve seen this it has always been for one motive: either you’re in the normal map and someone from your guild activates the npc on the overflow X time before you do, and fail, or you are on the overflow and someone from your guild activates in the normal map before you do. In any case, the group that triggers it later won’t have any chance, as the first team in activate it will fail several minutes before the event runs out for them.

Didn’t know that one, but that’s definitely not the case with us, as none of us are in overflows (we’re usually partied up and all accounted for). I could see that easily happening in a situation like the secret of southsun event where people got thrown into various overflows most of the time.

I’m wondering if it could possibly be that another guild gets assigned the same bounty npc while we’re already fighting it and it makes it reset to its spawn location for the other guild.

Devious Teesa is in Frostgorge Sound, right? It’s one of those npcs I’ve seen it happen with, since Jormag Claw can force overflows.
Anyway, it’s possible that there’s something else going on. The current system of sharing npcs for different guilds, no instance or delayed beggining leads to theorical scenarios messing things up for someone.